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2017’s Best Songs, in a 100-Track Playlist

Carl Wilson

Dec 29, 2017 9:00 AM

No Song Got Me Through 2017 Like “Cut to the Feeling”

Lindsay Zoladz

Dec 28, 2017 11:00 AM

Will This Year’s Latin Pop Boom Last Any Longer Than 1999’s?

Chris Molanphy

Dec 28, 2017 9:30 AM

The Songs That Helped Me Get Through My Grief

Ann Powers

Dec 28, 2017 7:17 AM

Some of the Year’s Best Love Songs Were Written by Dads for Their Babies

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd

Dec 27, 2017 11:00 AM

The Problem With Country Music’s Shift From Bro Country Toward Beau Country

Carl Wilson

Dec 27, 2017 9:30 AM

How Country Music Made the Personal Political in 2017

Jewly Hight

Dec 27, 2017 7:15 AM

Trump Is Already Building Walls, but Musicians Are Still Making Music Across Borders

Ann Powers

Dec 26, 2017 10:30 AM

We Wouldn’t Have Some of This Year’s Political-Music Prodigies Without Prodigy

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd

Dec 26, 2017 9:00 AM

The Best Albums of the Year

Carl Wilson

Dec 26, 2017 7:30 AM

This Was Yet Another Great Year for Women in Rock

Ann Powers

Dec 25, 2017 10:00 AM

Why Are We Suddenly So Tired of Our Biggest Pop Stars?

Jack Hamilton

Dec 25, 2017 9:00 AM

This Year Saw the “Browning of America” Begin to Infiltrate Pop

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd

Dec 25, 2017 7:45 AM

2017 Marked the End of the Empowering Pop Anthem and the Rise of Mumbling Men

Carl Wilson

Dec 25, 2017 5:55 AM

A 125-Song Playlist for Soundtracking the Final Days and Hours of 2016

Carl Wilson

Dec 29, 2016 11:15 AM

Troubling Times Call for More Than Angry Protest Anthems. There’s Also Power in Tenderness.

Ann Powers

Dec 29, 2016 9:45 AM

Kanye May Support Trump, but Pablo Can Still Inspire Us

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd

Dec 29, 2016 7:00 AM

My Two Favorite Albums of the Year Came From the Same City

Jack Hamilton

Dec 29, 2016 5:45 AM

Miranda Lambert’s The Weight of These Wings Was the Anti of Country

Jewly Hight

Dec 28, 2016 11:30 AM

The Internet Isn’t Democratizing Music the Way We’d Hoped

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd

Dec 28, 2016 10:00 AM

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